...inhabitants, with hardly an exception, were cultivators of the soil, verifying the poet's sentiment, " But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." This produced a remarkable equality in the condition and circumstances of this people. But of late...

...and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man 5 For him...

...noblemen. Kings, we are told, can make or unmake, princes or lords, who may flourish or may fade ; " But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Or, as Burns nobly sings : — " A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ;...

...and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. His host companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. Hut times are...

...and men decay, Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." CHAP. XXVII. LOCAL JTJNTEE. — THE COLLECTOR AND CIVIL SUKGEON. THESE is an anomalous kind of court...

...aristocratical manufacturers of beef and mutton may live to feel the truth of the lines of Goldsmith :— " But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." I remained about six weeks in my native country, and set out for London, where I arrived early in November,—"...

...ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; 5 For...

...and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade : A breath may make them as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. This leads me, in the fifth place, to say, that Agriculture is an honorable pursuit. \ Kings have desired...

...and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make'them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. It may be alleged, I am making, or attempting to make, too much of it. Let two authors, neither of...

...selfish principle, we shall go from bad to worse, and realize what the Leventine nations now do, that " A bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." But in thus pursuing our duty, we shall learn the strength of a country is in its people. "We shall...